Jar-holder.



T. S. CATLIN.

J'AR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILE!) rss.21. 1916.

1,217,565. Patented Feb. 27, 1917.

interlocked and then slid endwise over the jar. VVhen positioned about the jar and interlocked, the sections may be caused t0 grip the jar tightly merely by gripping the hand1es or operating levers 1. This gripping of the jars may be for the purpose of applying a lid or for removing a lid or other- The releas- Wise as occasion may require. ing of the jar merely requires the releasing of' the handles 1 and either the sliding of the clamping band endwise off the jar or the detaching of the sections by the Witiv drawal of the shoulders 12 from within notches 11 and the swinging of the sections apart. The application of the clamp to an intermediate size jar Will be the same as described except that the shoulders 12 Will engage the notches 11 of the intermediate section, and the same operation is employed for applying the clamp to the smallest size jar except that the shoulders 12 engage the last of the set of tabs 10.

. There has been placed on the market recently certain jars which are not of the herctofore standard size, and vary therefrom only slightly,'each of the several sizes being slightly larger than the standard size. To enable the improved clamp to be applied to these extra size jars, the slots 14 are employed, and the operation is identically the same as that above described except that the tabs 10 in each instance are passed through the slots 14 instead of being caused to engage the shoulders 12.

VVhat I claim is:

1. The combination, with band operating levers, of band sections adapted to form a clamping band and each having one end portion engaging the operating levers, one of said sections being formed with a tab and the other with a coperating shoulder to permit interlocking of the sections whilc being clamped about a jar, the section hav ing a shoulder being also formed with a slot adapted to accommodate the tab for locking pair of shoulders to permit interlocking of the sections while being clamped about a jar, the shouldered section being also formed with a pair of slots spaced from the shoulders for accommodating the pair of tabs and enabling locking of the sections to gether with the tabs spaced from the shoulders.

3. The combination, with a pair of operating levers, of band sections adapted to form a clamping band, and each having one end portiomengaging the operating levers, one of said sections being formed With outstanding tabs spaced apart lengthwise of the section, and the other section being formed with a shoulder aclapted t0 cooperate with any one of said tabs for connecting the sections together to permit clamping thereof about a jar, the shoulder section being also formed with a tab receiving slot spaced from the shoulder and adapted to engage any of said tabs for locking the sections together.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS S. CATLIN.

Witnesses:

CLARENCE T. BICKELL, FRANK J. DAVIS.

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